Watch Buckle Clasp With Magnetic Golf Ball Marker Retention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Golfers face the inconvenience of carrying a separate golf ball marker while wearing a watch, such as a smartwatch, during their game, which disrupts their play.
Innovation Solution
A buckle clasp for a watch bracelet integrates a removable golf ball marker housed in a compartment with magnetic and/or mechanical clamping means, allowing easy access and secure retention within the clasp.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a separate golf ball marker is carried during play, then the golf ball can be marked, but it disrupts the player's game and causes inconvenience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the golf ball marker function with the watch bracelet clasp by integrating a housing into the clasp structure that can accommodate a golf ball marker. This merging eliminates the need to carry a separate marker while maintaining the clasp's primary function, directly resolving the contradiction between convenience and accessory complexity
2Reliability
If the golf ball marker is securely retained in the clasp, then it remains in place during play, but it must still be easily removable for marking golf balls
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical retention systems with magnetic retention, where a magnet in the housing holds the golf ball marker securely during play, yet allows easy removal when needed. This magnetic system resolves the contradiction by providing both secure retention and ease of operation through non-contact holding forces
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables golfers to conveniently carry and use a golf ball marker without additional accessories, ensuring it remains securely in place during play and is easily removable for marking golf balls.
Implementation Method 1
clamping means, the clamping means providing magnetic and/or mechanical clamping, configured to retain the removable golf ball marker in the housing
Implementation Method 2
the clamping means include guide rails arranged longitudinally in the mass of the lower part of the hood, to guide the golf ball marker in translation, in a direction corresponding to a longitudinal axis of the bottom of the housing
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a buckle clasp system (1) for a wristband, the buckle clasp system (1) further comprising a golf ball marker (60), the second portion (12) having a cover (50) that has an upper portion (51) which has a thickness and a lower portion (52), the cover (50) comprising, formed in the thickness of the upper portion (51), a recess, the recess having a flat bottom corresponding to the lower portion (52) of the cover (50), the recess being configured to accommodate the golf ball marker (60), the shape of the golf ball marker (60) corresponding to the recess, the system further comprising clamping means, the clamping means providing magnetic and/or mechanical clamping, and being configured to keep the golf ball marker (60) in the recess.